Browse by Subject "rhetoric"

This dissertation explicates the disciplinary rhetoric of the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) and its subsequent impact on the field of writing studies and the teaching of writing. Specifically, this inquiry ...

This dissertation examines the messages undergraduate writers receive about what writing and language practices qualify as “academic.” I consider several aspects of these messages: their broad circulation, as evidenced ...

Within information science, work on information credibility often focuses on generalized models of user assessment behavior and associated properties that mark credible information across document types, user groups, and ...

This chapter is the Introduction to the Sage Handbook of E-Learning Research (2007), edited by Richard Andrews and Caroline Haythornthwaite. The introduction, written by the editors, is a substantial work that addresses ...

“Judicial Rhetoric and Radical Politics: Sexuality, Race, and the Fourteenth Amendment” takes up U.S. judicial opinions as performances of sovereignty over the boundaries of legitimate subjectivity. The argumentative choices ...

This paper offers a somatic genealogy of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and its related cluster--symbolic action, attitude, identification--by tracing their development in relation to Sir Richard Paget’s theory of Gesture-Speech. ...

A look into Rhet 105 at The University of Illinois and its uses of social media in the classroom. Results show that these technologies establish a community within the classroom that helps aid student learning.